Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Taiwan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rosa Yemen,
The American Breed,
The Real Kids,
The Moleskins,
New York Dolls,
Ossler,
Siglo XX,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
The Fuzztones,
Pantaleimon,
Suburban Knight,
The Black Dice,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pulsallama,
Leonard Cohen,
UT,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang of Four,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lalann,
Heaven 17,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Neon Judgement,
The Standells,
John Cale,
Joe Smooth,
Bootsy Collins,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Curtis Mayfield,
Angry Samoans,
Deadbeat,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra,
Wolf Eyes,
Schoolly D,
Chrome,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Howard Jones,
Livin' Joy,
Soulsonic Force,
Sam Rivers,
the Germs,
Reuben Wilson,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Skatalites,
Section 25,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Swans,
Theoretical Girls,
Scratch Acid,
David Bowie,
This Heat,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.